I wonder if it would install on an AMD64 setup. I'll try, though, and report ASAP.

Another thought, just FWIW: could there be a slight problem with just the Mint theme for Plymouth?I got Plymouth working on my own system (LMDE XFCE), but with the "Solar" theme. I think I remember the Mint theme wouldn't work. But this was some time ago.

Grub customizer is ok, but only if framebuffer and vesafb modes are working fine with your gfx-card.Most of the problems with plymouth are, because framebuffer implementation (support), and hence vesafb modes, are "nonstandard" (are screwed) in gfx-hardware.

Solar theme or any complex theme = problems, beceause uvesafb don't use acceleration and have some limitations. From documentation:uvesafb is a _generic_ driver which supports a wide variety of video cards, but which is ultimately limited by the Video BIOS interface. The most important limitations are:- Lack of any type of acceleration.- A strict and limited set of supported video modes. Often the native or most optimal resolution/refresh rate for your setup will not work with uvesafb, simply because the Video BIOS doesn’t support the video mode you want to use. This can be especially painful with widescreen panels, where native video modes don’t have the 4:3 aspect ratio, which is what most BIOS-es are limited to.- Adjusting the refresh rate is only possible with a VBE 3.0 compliant Video BIOS. Note that many nVidia Video BIOS-es claim to be VBE 3.0 compliant, while they simply ignore any refresh rate settings.Also, uvesafb replaces vesafb in Mint/Ubuntu, in case you are wondering.

Symptoms:Plymouth splash screen…- is in low res mode.- has corrupted graphic- is decent but can’t switch to virtual terminal or VT is horribly in low res mode- is decent but the splash screen only appears for a brief 1-2 second (you are missing the dots moving ), before that you only see a black/blank screen

EnvironmentUse Synaptic or ‘apt-cache policy ‘ or common-sense to find out.- GRUB >= 1.98- Plymouth >= 0.8.2-2- ATI cards with FGLRX >= 8.723.1-0ubuntu3- NVIDIA cards with nvidia-glx-1*- A clean without other tweaks to plymouth & grub, please revert them before proceeding.Really, it will not work if you insisted on apply other tweaks. ! IMPORTANT !- Common-sense and google searching skill- A bit of risk taking spirit and confidence

Ok.. Now the fix - try it for yourself - but at own risk--* uvesafb required v86d package to be installed.Hwinfo package is required for the next step as well.

* Edit: /etc/default/grub to make sure we boot with uvesafb framebuffer.For the mode_option parameter change to your native screen resolution you see from running the above comment (if not just set to 1024×768-24 which is safest.Netbook user - please exercise some common-sense here) Non relevant lines are omitted for clarity.

* Now reboot and enjoy the high resolution sensation (my first reboot hangs, but 2nd time onward it works flawlessly).If it works correctly, you should be able to have moving dots with the splash screen; lesser time of blank screen and much more time with splash screen.

* And contrary to popular belief, your laptop should resume and suspend normal with uvesafb! * Thing you probably will see in dmesg if succeed:

Other Alternative* No splash screen but high resolution virutal terminal using EFI framebuffer.Edit /etc/default/grub, remove ‘splash’ option and replace the two entries below with your native resolution.Seriously, this is way better than setting the payload to keep and in 00_header.GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX is only available from grub 1.98.

1) Zorin splash manager is really convenient for selecting and changing theme. Ended up with mint-logo theme (that good old legacy theme with the dots). Alas it only flashes for a fraction of a second just before the GDM window.

2) After that I tried to install v86d, edit /etc/default/grub, /etc/initramfs-tools/modules etc. (like I did on my main laptop with the Nvidia card). Not only did it improve nothing, but it had a weird side effect: the Cinnamon interface was sort of locked to the classic way (toolbars above and below like early Ubuntu), whatever settings I chose. The only way to recover was to cancel all the previous steps.

Now, back to my mint-logo flash, I'm looking for a way perhaps less radical or Nvidia- or ATI-specific to force it to appear earlier in the boot process.

In earlier mint you had two themes in the repository name "Plymouth Theme Mint Logo" and "Plymouth Theme Mint Text" when they were installed together you had your splash but alas i was working on a way to import that part of the repository into Mint 13 Maya when i got weak and reverted to an earlier version Mint 9 Isadora all for the sake of a splash screen.. So you have to ask yourself this question, Is It Worth It, Well Is It..